The minutes of last council should be appearing shortly on the RCGP website (now that they are agreed.) I spoke up about three things   1) That GP as practiced at present is unsustainable. We have to stop doing things that don’t work. There is no point in appealing for, and getting more funding if […]

  Meeting video http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=15500   http://www.informedchoiceaboutcancerscreening.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/FINAL-cervical-screening-helping-you-decide.pdf http://aaa.screening.nhs.uk/leaflets http://www.informedchoiceaboutcancerscreening.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Breast-screening-leaflet_8August2013_Final_ready-for-print-version.pdf http://www.informedchoiceaboutcancerscreening.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/OPM-ICCS-Citizens-Jury-FINAL-REPORT-07012013.pdf http://sdm.rightcare.nhs.uk/pda/ http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2011/11/22/gutjnl-2011-300843.full http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966107/ http://msc.sagepub.com/content/15/2/76.full http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c5370 http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/4/192.full http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116583. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2126887/pdf/9202520.pdf doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c2138 http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d3193 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001431.pub4/abstract http://www.nsd.scot.nhs.uk/services/screening/

BMJ column, free link 

column in the BMJ – free link 

free link 

Smear tests are only for asymptomatic women. that’s the point of this BMJ column about cervical smears     

free link to bmj column 

Free link to BMJ column 

free  link to BMJ column 

free link to BMJ column   Last year Carmel Turner and I went to the Selling Sickness conference to present our case for making press releases better. We suggested that guidelines would be useful – and as I explain in the BMJ column, linked to above, guidelines have helped in the reporting of RCTs via the […]